Wij voeren multidisciplinair onderzoek uit op het niveau van moleculen, cellen en organismen binnen de dierkunde. Ons doel is om fundamentele kennis te vergroten over gezondheid en ziekte.

In his dissertation Michiel Hooykaas outlines the results of six empirical research projects focused at biodiversity awareness in the Netherlands, specifically people’s knowledge about animals.

Op 10 oktober 2019 verdedigde Janneke Vink haar proefschrift 'The Open Society and Its Animals'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. P.B. Cliteur.

The mission of our group is understanding how science communication works to improve the interaction between science and society. We believe better science communication can improve our society and engage many different groups with science, also improving science.

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Anthropogenic noise has been shown to affect marine animals in various ways, this may have fitness consequences at individual and population level. This thesis aims to increase insight into the quantification of sound-induced behavioural responses that are relevant to fitness, and into factors that…

Anthropogenic noise negatively affects wildlife in a wide range of taxonomic groups.

Animal diet studies are critical for understanding ecological processes such as trophic interactions, energy flow, and nutrient cycling. By examining what animals consume, ecologists gain insights into species specialization, predator-prey relationships, and ecosystem management.

Brendan Carroll verdedigde op donderdag 30 oktober zijn proefschrift:

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.K. Richardson

Obesity may alter how a person absorbs, distributes, metabolizes or excretes medication. This thesis describes how obesity affects drug levels in the blood for antimicrobial agents, such as ciprofloxacin and fluconazole.

In dit artikel onderzoeken Bart Schuurman & Sarah Louise Carthy de verschillen tussen geradicaliseerde individuen en de algemene bevolking.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Bouwman, Co-promotor: S. Bonnet

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What is the effect of light at night on plant phenology and physiology, and how does this affect plant interactions with other species?

Systems with local constraints is a new finding in recent researches on complex systems. The heterogeneous spatial interactions and the temporal dependencies among those numerous units make it difficult to describe by traditional statistical physics.

Promotor: A. Achúcarro Co-promotor: A. Boyarsky

In populations with a seed-bank, individuals can temporarily become dormant and refrain from reproduction until they can become active again. The repository of all dormant individuals in the population is called the seed-bank. Seed-banks are observed in many taxa, including plants, bacteria and other…

Promotors: C.A.J. Knibbe, Anthonius de Boer, Co-promotor: M.M.J. van der Vorst

Radio jets are important to the evoultion of galaxies. However, it is still not fully understood how a radio jet can be triggered.

Op 16 december 2019 verdedigde Jan-Harm de Villiers zijn proefschrift 'The Anthropomorphic Hegemony of Subjectivity: Critical Reflections on Law and the Question of the Animal'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. P. Cliteur.

This thesis develops a method for direction dependent calibration of the ionosphere in radio interferometric data.

In this work, I explore the creation of new methods that optimize simulations of the gravitational N-body problem. Specifically, I take advantage of the recent popularity of Machine Learning methods to find tools that can suit this problem.

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Op 10 november 2021 verdedigde Carmel van Niekerk-Jacobs het proefschrift 'Realising the right to reproduce with assistance in South Africa'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen en prof.dr. T. Liefaard.

Electron microscopy has become an extremely important techniquein a wide variety of elds.

Molecular materials have been a subject of interest in fundamental research and applications for decades, and have been studied as bulk crystals, (thin) films and as individual molecules, due to the large variety in their properties. This dissertation explores pentacene crystals near the two-dimensional…

Promotor: Prof.dr. D. Bouwmeester

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven, A. Iovita

CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates that human macrophages can be induced to exert direct anti-tumor activity against osteosarcoma cells. Our observation that the induction of macrophage anti-tumor activity by L-MTP-PE required IFN-gamma may be of relevance for the optimization of L-MTP-PE therapy in…

This thesis focuses on the application of lipid-based nanomedicine in drug delivery, including small molecular antitumor drugs and biomacromolecules including mRNA, and evaluates their biological performance.

Promotor: F.S. de Boer, Co-promotor: M.M. Bonsangue

In this thesis, the discovery and optimization is described of chemical tools to study the N-acylethanolamine (NAE) biosynthetic pathway.

In recent decades, climate change has led to more frequent and severe drought events, causing serious consequences such as increased forest mortality and significant crop yield losses. Understanding how drought affects plants, especially economically important herbaceous species, is crucial for predicting…

Promotor: Prof.dr. D. Bouwmeester, Co-Promotor: M.J.A. de Dood

CrO2, a half-metal ferromagnet, has shown great promise for superconducting spintronics applications for nearly two decades.

With the rise of multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens, the possibility of a post-antibiotic world is quickly becoming reality.

Promotor: C.J. ten Cate

We are living in an information era where the amount of image and video data increases exponentially.

The ultimate goal of cosmologists is to find a cosmological model able to explain the current observational data.

Promotores: R. Tijdeman, K.J. Batenburg

The database research community has made tremendous strides in developing powerful database engines that allow for efficient analytical query processing.

The project Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Genres: Connecting Diasporas and Local Audiences (Director: D.Merolla) focuses on multimedia as technology that allows scholars to share documentation and scientific knowledge with the cultural owners of the collected oral genres.

De onderzoeksmaster History (research) van de Universiteit Leiden biedt een keuze uit vijf specialisaties waarin je je richt op historische processen, geschiedkundig onderzoek, historiografie en methodologie.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotoren: M.F.E. de Jeu, S.D. Silvestrov

Until the 1990s, the only known planets were those in our Solar System. Three decades later, several thousand exoplanets have been discovered orbiting stars other than the Sun, and substantial efforts have been made to explore these strange new worlds through spectroscopic analyses of their atmosphe…

This thesis is a collection of theoretical works aiming at adjusting quantum algorithms to the hardware of quantum computers.

To limit the effects of climate change, global average temperature since pre-industrial measurements are to be kept well below 2 °C preferably even at 1.5 °C.

Visualizing the internal structure is a crucial step in acquiring knowledge about the origin, state, and composition of cultural heritage artifacts. Among the most powerful techniques for exposing the interior of cultural heritage objects is computed tomography (CT), a technique that computationally…